Book Description

Bill and Giuliana Rancic are now the hosts of NBC’s Ready for Love, a new relationship show featuring three of America’s most eligible guys searching for their soul mates.

Five million viewers tuned in to The Style Network for Giuliana DePandi and Bill Rancic’s fairy tale wedding in Italy, as the passions, tears, and champagne flowed. But what happened once the honeymoon was over? After all, she’s been stationed in Los Angeles as one of E! Entertainment’s most popular personalities, and he’s kept his home in Chicago, where this handsome winner of The Apprentice has been busy running an empire of his own. How, we’ve wondered, is this marriage really working out?

With all the funny, frank, and characteristically down-to-earth personality that fans of their hit reality show, Giuliana & Bill, have come to adore, this glamorous couple takes you behind the scenes of their real-life marriage. Like all newlyweds, they’ve faced the big issues that wedlock manages to invite, including money (to merge or not?), household chores (she’s disorganized, he’s a neat freak), arguments (without staying mad), and trying to have a baby (it’s not as easy as they thought!). Sharing their newfound and sometimes hard-won insights, they offer suggestions on such topics as communication, giving and receiving support, trust and jealousy, quality time, friends and in-laws, fighting fair, and sex and romance.

A must-read for newly married couples, or those about to take the plunge, or anyone who wants to know the secrets of everlasting love, I Do, Now What? is an upbeat real-world resource for the most ambitious journey of a couple’s life: marriage!

Bill and Giuliana Rancic are now the hosts of NBC’s Ready for Love, a new relationship show featuring three of America’s most eligible guys searching for their soul mates.

Five million viewers tuned in to The Style Network for Giuliana DePandi and Bill Rancic’s fairy tale wedding in Italy, as the passions, tears, and champagne flowed. But what happened once the honeymoon was over? After all, she’s been stationed in Los Angeles as one of E! Entertainment’s most popular personalities, and he’s kept his home in Chicago, where this handsome winner of The Apprentice has been busy running an empire of his own. How, we’ve wondered, is this marriage really working out?

With all the funny, frank, and characteristically down-to-earth personality that fans of their hit reality show, Giuliana & Bill, have come to adore, this glamorous couple takes you behind the scenes of their real-life marriage. Like all newlyweds, they’ve faced the big issues that wedlock manages to invite, including money (to merge or not?), household chores (she’s disorganized, he’s a neat freak), arguments (without staying mad), and trying to have a baby (it’s not as easy as they thought!). Sharing their newfound and sometimes hard-won insights, they offer suggestions on such topics as communication, giving and receiving support, trust and jealousy, quality time, friends and in-laws, fighting fair, and sex and romance.

A must-read for newly married couples, or those about to take the plunge, or anyone who wants to know the secrets of everlasting love, I Do, Now What? is an upbeat real-world resource for the most ambitious journey of a couple’s life: marriage!

Editorial Reviews

Review

“I Do, Now What? makes readers think about what they want, expect and need from a relationship. The book also serves as a reminder that respect and communication are paramount.” --The Associated Press

From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Giuliana Rancic (née DePandi) was born in Naples, Italy, and moved to the United States when she was seven. She is the anchor and managing editor of the top-rated E! News, a beloved red-carpet interviewer, and the author of the dating book Think Like a Guy.

Bill Rancic is an American entrepreneur and was the first winner of Donald Trump’s The Apprentice. He spent the next several years overseeing the construction of Trump Tower in Chicago. Since then he has created a motivational speaking career, and is the author of the New York Times bestseller You’re Hired and Beyond the Lemonade Stand.

Giuliana and Bill are the co-stars of The Style Network’s hit reality show Giuliana & Bill. The two live in Chicago and Los Angeles.

I'd like to preface this with the fact that I've never really been a fan of either celebs here. I mean, I don't have anything against them, I just am not one to get wrapped up in the whole Celeb culture. However, my best friend lives and dies for this stuff, and so when she heard that Bill and Guiliana were doing a reading at Borders in Chicago, she dragged me along. Turns out, I actually enjoyed them. They are an adorable couple and seemed really in love. I skimmed the book my friend bought when we first got there- and it had a great "voice" to it and it made me laugh, so on my way out I picked up a copy for myself. I went home and read it cover to cover. I couldn't put it down. How did I get sucked in like that? Ha! They are such great writers and I love the humor and stories that they used along the way that made it such an enjoyable read. It gives you an intimate look into their lives and makes the reader feel like when they are done the book, like they know the couple and would totally want to be friends with them out in the real world.

As a newly married 30 something in today's self-centered, easily divorced society, I admire and appreciate G and B's traditional and earnest approach at marriage. This book is a candid read of real issues that all married couples face. This book had me listening and laughing to their insight and challenges but also made me think about how it can relate to my own marriage. Refreshing to hear honesty from a Hollywood couple.

First of all, I love G & B on their tv show. But, the book was such a disappointment. I felt like each chapter was about G doing something wrong and B would scold her and tell her how it should be done....which was HIS way only. I follow them because I too have struggled with infertility and can relate to them through that whole process. The infertility chapter was the only good chapter in the whole book. Maybe they should have concentrated on that area more. I still like them and will continue to watch their show.

Loved the book and the style in which it was written. After reading this book you feel like you know Jiuliana and Bill. Was amazed that they shared so much. Couldn't wait to pick it up everyday and didn't want to put it down when I did! It was a very fast read and hope that there is a second one.

Loved the combined thinkings of the Rancic's in their new book. I found it to be honest, funny & hopeful for those of us that struggle in relationships from time to time. I have to say as a female and a BIG Apprentice fan...I have been a fan of Bill for a long time and reading his excerts on how he keeps the romance alive, how he is about his marriage/family and the priority of these in his life and most of all how he truley cares, loves and adores his wife.. may I just say "he should be cloned." Or start giving seminars to men on his methods of whooing a female and what he has found to work...there's alot of men out there that could use some gentle reminders. Loved the book...have suggested it to many...most of all my finacee'! Looking forward to the next installments.

I liked this book. I loved the stories they shared. But I do think that you can't write a marriage advice book only 3 years after you get married. My anniversary is actually 2 days before theirs. Things change drastically after kids and changes in finances. Also the fact that they don't live together every single day means they don't have the 'typical marriage'. I think on one episode on their show they said the longest they have lived together is 12 days... I'm sure if I only saw my husband on the weekends our marriage would be completely different! We would appreciate each other more, spend more time together when we are together, have less fights on domestic duties, have a spicier love life. While I don't disagree with anything in this book it is more of a pleasure read and a peak into their lives rather than a book on marriage advice. I love G & B!

I could not put this book down. It's an easy read which makes it fun to read (for me).

I've been engaged now for 4 years (this November) & I'm one of those girls who thinks that marriage isn't for everyone - including myself. But this book really made me think about what marrying someone really means. It's important and it's forever, it's work and it supposed to be fun. They have an "old fashion" love with a modern twist. It's real & it's cute.

Giuliana & Bill are great role models for whatever type of relationships you are in... married, engaged or dating.

I DO, NOW WHAT? SECRETS, STORIES AND ADVICE FROM A MADLY-IN-LOVE COUPLE provides a real-life romance and its aftermath. If it sounds familiar, the couple was on the Style Channel for their Italian wedding: this picks up on the aftermath, presenting their frank assessment of marriage. The third season of 'Giuliana & Bill' coincides with this book's publication and probes secrets behind their marriage success in this fine account, recommended for any general lending library.